The Life of Florence Nightingale, vol. 2 of 2 by Sir Edward Tyas Cook

AN INDIAN REFORMER (1874-1879) Miss Nightingale's work on Indian questions. Her sources of information and industrious study: her opportunities of effective action less than in earlier years. II. Continued interest in army sanitation--Letter from Lord Napier of Magdala--Correspondence with Lord Salisbury and Lord Northbrook. III. Correspondence with Lord Salisbury and the Duke of Buckingham on the drainage of Madras. IV. Indian famines and an extension of Miss Nightingale's interests --Correspondence with Sir Arthur Cotton. V. An irrigation campaign --Miss Nightingale's appeal to Lord Salisbury for a Return of irrigation-results--Lord Salisbury on the experts--Miss Nightingale's continued advocacy of irrigation--Her article in the _Nineteenth Century_ on "The People of India" (1878)-- Correspondence with Lord Cranbrook. VI. Correspondence and interview with Mr. Gladstone--The death of Lord Lawrence. VII. Miss Nightingale's unpublished book on Indian Land Tenures and Irrigation--Her Irrigation maps. VIII. Her impatience at the slow rate of Indian reforms--Lord Salisbury's Philosophic Defence of the Policy of Draft 273